March Milkness Taste Test: Sugary Cereals

Let's get ready for the surreal, let's talk about that mythical good day, it's Monday morning and that means another new episode of Ear Cookies, which is our podcast available on iTunes and Spotify every week. Yes, across the country now basketball lovers revel in March Madness as 68 college basketball teams compete for the title of Crown One National Champion, but basketball isn't the only thing to go crazy about in March. Last March we ate 32 of the most popular snack foods and crowned Sour Cream and Onion Chips the overall snack champion, but this year we're crowning the breakfast cereal champion.

I'm so excited that my honey oatmeal is in a pile. Welcome to the first day of a series competition spanning five episodes of Good Mythical Morning. In the end, a cereal will remain standing and Most likely the link will snap and explode it's time for March

sugary

region of milfness behold the old ones are gigantic, hulking, deliciously delicious cereal support boards, aka the full breakfast stand with a platter on top with us, as you can see, each of the four regions represents a category of We have

sugary

, healthy, fruity and chocolate

cereals

. We now start with 32 competitors that we have reduced from 64 with your help.

We did this by compiling a list of the top 16

cereals

in each category based on sales statistics and online sentiment. and mythical team polls below, 25,000 of you voted for your favorites within each of the categories and that led us to the eight best cereals per category and today we move through the sugary region including Cinnamon Toast Crunch Rice Krispies Treats Captain Crunch Honey Nut Cheerios Frosted Flakes Frosted Mini Wheat Lucky Charms and Honey Bunches of Oats, let's get to our first matchup, okay, we start with the highest ranked seed in this category with 13,238 votes Cinnamon Toast Crunch versus the highest ranked seed low with 3151 votes Rice Krispies Treats cereal now a disappointing clarification, maybe you're thinking I'm imagining a sugary cereal that you guys didn't mention, but just wait because in other regions there are sugary cereals that are also something else, maybe fruity or with chocolate, they are all sugary. they'll appear later, okay, so trust us, let's start over here with the favorite Cinnamon Toast Crunch that's been around since 1984.

And, by the way, it's the most popular cereal in more than half of the states in America, so this is a strong strong contender in terms of sentiment, I think Maddie plays the cinnamon cereal guy, but I've never actually tried Rice Krispies Treats cereal, um, which was introduced in 1993. I missed that tidbit. funny: the world's largest Rice Krispie Treat weighed 11,327 pounds that's significantly more than this bowl bigger than this that's a lot of freedom that's supposed to happen I'm not going to complain I wouldn't give it to my kids that just feels strong I think you ever had it is this your first time having it, I've had it now, it's just Rice Krispie treats, what you imagine, it's like this, isn't this, isn't it a cereal?, it's like Rice Krispie treats from Grandma and she put them back in a box and called them Rice Krispies treats. which you should actually call it Rice Krispie treats, that's what we all call it, this is what happens, man, the Crispies part, it's really good, go back, go back to the movies, go back to the toaster, oh man, classic, you're so complex. complex man, now simple, yeah, complex, this goes into my repertoire, but it did, I mean, it also seems a little wrong, hey, let's take a dessert that's just a genuine dessert, yeah, and let's pour it in milk, yeah, that one is morally wrong, meaning "Let's move Cinnamon Toast Crunch along with Alex, how's it going?

Alright, hello, oh, you got a whistle. 4th seed position Captain Crunch with 7032 versus 5th seed 6572 votes for Honey Nut Cheerios now Honey Nut Cheerios, you may remember this if you're a Mythical Beast from way back. I actually said it in an episode called best series of the first season. and I thought this was the best cereal, so let's see if my

taste

buds have lasted more than 15 seasons. It's a good cereal. Familiar flavor to me. I love it too. I've never said it's my favorite Captain. Crunch, uh, here's a top seed that was introduced in 1963. This is what Captain Crunch is not actually a captain because he has three stripes instead of four, making him a commander in the US Navy.

I don't think he is in the US Navy In any case, I don't think it qualifies. I'm just saying that we lied to my friend. It's like sweet corn. It almost

taste

s like popsicles. Yes, but it's a little sweet. It tastes good. But I think there is a ceiling on the abrasion factor of the mouth, which is higher in Irv with Captain Crunch, then the roundness of the Cheerios. I like to roughen my palate from time to time just to feel alive, but you know what I can't stay away from. I know you love this, your faith, I too prefer this sugary and nutty flavor to the sweet and cheesy flavor, okay, Honey Nut Cheerios, a little annoying, there you go, with emphasis.

Next up is the three seed with 9,225 votes, Frosted Flakes versus 6C. with 6520 votes Frosted Mini Wheats I am now the best cereal ever. Go back to the first season. I'm on record saying that Frosted Mini Wheats is not just that episode where you've supported Frosted Mini Wheats, uh many times in the past and We're both trying to get some that have just the right amount of milk. This is a very familiar feeling for me. It's a great flavor. I mean, it mostly comes from the frozen part. It's not wheat. Now, Frosted Flakes were introduced in 1952. you may know their mascot, Tony the Tiger, well the great mascot of the 70's, Kellogg's announced that his full name is actually Anthony the Tiger, the mystery is solved, it's Italian, now I'm going to make an argument for mini-freeze weeks, obviously, um, and at this point.

My argument is that it is a unidimensional and multidimensional experience, including health benefits. In fact, Mini Wheats have the highest overall nutritional score among all children's and family cereals. I think fiber has something to do with this. This is what I will say I prefer the taste of these to those, uh, these are like those distillates in the heavenly parts that have too much dried wheat, you have to work too hard, but I don't feel like we can dethrone your favorite cereal. who you have partnered with so much in the first round, he knows the translation, I will fight tooth and nail especially on this point, so keep going for many weeks, okay, now we have our two seeds with 9,327 votes.

Lucky Charms vs. our seven seed with 3,966 votes Honey Bunches of Oats okay Lucky Charms have been around since 1964 and they have the highest sugar content in the sugar country with 12.6 grams of sugar per serving you know they are marshmallows and some kind of something else, a little bit of marshmallow. I've long been a fan, uh, honey, pile of oats, uh, they were introduced in 1989, little history, Vernon J. Herzing, uh, he originally called them Battle Creek cereal, he was a manager in the post-Battle Creek office in Michigan and mixed existing grains to create this. one, it really is a hodgepodge, it's like you swept everything in the factory, yes, in Battle Creek.

Battle Creek Cereal, now let me be honest with you, yes, going into this, I knew that Honey Bunches of ships was going to go ahead because I thought I liked it a lot, but now that I'm trying it in the context of all these things and these marshmallows are really doing something for me, you know what's going to kill me, it gets soggy almost immediately. These marshmallows hold up just like you do. You wouldn't believe it, yes he is the favorite but none of us thought he would be, but we are moving lucky tribes. I'm surprised, okay, Cinnamon Toast Crunch versus Honey Nut Cheerio.

I'm not. I'll argue with another chance to eat cereal again. Still, what's up with this? It's still good too. It really comes down to whether you like circles and nuts or you like toast and cinnamon. I don't think it's that simple, but this is what I'll do. Say you know what the first season was a long time ago. I changed a lot, apparently my taste buds changed quite a bit. Also, I wasn't trying Honey Nut Cheerios directly next to Cinnamon Toast Crunch, yeah, and now that I know, I can say that. Definitely, unequivocally, Cinnamon Toast Crunch is better than Honey Nut Cheerios.

Hey man thanks for being such a big boy and changing my mind because I'm all for it bam so the sixth seed of US Mini Wheats versus the two seeds of Lucky Charms the way I. I like to eat them frozen side down, it's a good cereal again, that's another part of the experience. Oh, I'm not going to use them frosted side up or Foster side down. I can mix them, it's like eating two cereals in one, well, talking about Lucky Charms. right in front of you, oh, I can eat marshmallows or I can eat brown things, like eating candy and kids' cereal in one, um, but it's so much fun you never know what you'll get, you can examine every bite, you'll get the same thing with every one of these spoonfuls, furthermore, you find this at the end of a rainbow, you find this like at the end of a wheat field.

I adopted a miniature horse and his name is mini wheat. I, you know, you have to come with me. Man, I feel sorry for you, but I'm not going to kill myself next year. We'll have to bring in a tiebreaker from the dark corners of someone's basement. The Sultan of sweetness and the only source of links. Emotionally crippling insecurities. It's cotton candy. Randy, happy cotton candy day, daddies, do you want to hear a sweet nothing? You know I do, but for once I think I have something else to do and that is, we need you to break the tie between which of these cereals it is. the best and we are not going to say anything about the cereals yes to indicate which of us he likes because maybe Randy is more fond of one than the other that's true that's great it could be objective great okay Randy um, did you bring your spoon , I see, yes, start however you want, ah, you're using the thin end of the spoon, don't give me the spleen, okay, he's eating the Frosted Mini wheat and now the Lucky Charms, it'll be harder. with the technique, but okay, okay, okay, Randy, we need your answer on which cereal do you think is best in five what four three what's going on two one I want Frosted Mini Wheats I agree, yeah, that's great, I like the texture.

It reminds me of that bird skeleton I stole from the Museum of Natural History. Okay, goodbye daddies. Wow, congratulations. I can't argue with Randy. I think it's great. I can't even in every way. Alex, you heard the man. Okay, onto the final round. got Cinnamon Toast Crunch versus Frosted Mini Wheats that I missed, yes, Randy is coming. I frequently eat cinnamon sugar toast like one more morning if I come here. I enjoy being able to take cinnamon toast, it's that big, and make it a little tiny and put it in milk, wouldn't you be excited about that?

There is no denying the fact that Cinnamon Toast Crunch is an amazing cereal. not many people, but this thing that is disgusting is special to many more people, including me, so I don't want to impose on everyone, so you are saying that Cinnamon Toast Crunch is winning the sugary region as much as it hurts, yes. you've got it the winner of the sugary region the number one seeded cinnamon crunch toast now make sure you come back tomorrow we will determine a winner of our healthy cereal region thank you for liking, commenting and subscribing do you know what time it is hello I'm loved I'm eating cereal for dinner I'm from Canada and it's time to spin the wheel of the mythical brilliant no rules so brilliant click on Top Lane to see us eat a 17 year old Homer Simpson cinnamon donut cereal and give another see more and find out where the wheel will land and mythology your hair and lips are not doomed, they may just need to be fixed try our mythical care products available now in that mythical store